Cybersecurity
Iranians Posing as ‘Proud Boys’ Members Charged in U.S. Election Meddling
- Emails warned Democrats to vote for Trump, indictment says
- Iranians also got data on about 100,000 voters from one state
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Two Iranian men were charged with interfering in the 2020 presidential election by hacking confidential U.S. voter information from at least one state election website and sending threatening emails to Democrats purportedly from the White supremacy group Proud Boys.
The emails, which the U.S. disclosed last year, warned tens of thousands of Democrats to vote for Donald Trump for president, according to an indictment released on Thursday.